Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
AL FRANKENIf we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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